Poetry & Mindfulness with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
In this episode I chat with poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer about mindfulness and poetry. (Check below to find links for Rosemerry and her work as well as the poems and books we chat about.) Here are some of the topics we dig into:
Reading poetry as a mindfulness practice
How to find poems that speak to you
Poetry as a how-to manual on practicing mindfulness
Asking the poem: what do you have to teach me?
Grief and poetry
Who can write poetry?
A prompt for writing your own poem
Rosemerry’s Bio:
Rosemerry co-hosts the Emerging Form podcast on creative process, Secret Agents of Change (a surreptitious kindness cabal) and Soul Writer’s Circle. Her poetry has appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, O Magazine, American Life in Poetry, on Carnegie Hall stage, and on river rocks she leaves around town. Since 2006, she’s written a poem a day. Her collection Hush won the Halcyon Prize. Naked for Tea was a finalist for the Able Muse Book Award. Her next collection, All the Honey, comes out in April, 2023. Her new daily audio series, The Poetic Path, begins on the Ritual app in January 2023. One-word mantra: Adjust.
Rosemerry's Links:
Poem a Day
Rosemerry's website
Emerging Form podcast
New book! All the Honey
Ritual App
New book! Beneath All Appearances
New book! Exploring Poetry of Presence II: Prompts to Deepen Your Writing Practice
Sarah's Links:
Join the Homecoming Waitlist (Homecoming opening to new members for one weekend at the end of April 2023) About Homecoming
Find out more about Sarah & who she works with on this episode of Swimming & Singing
Sarah's newsletter (receive the FREE Guide to Creating a Yoga Habit)
Sarah on Instagram
Poems Discussed:
Why I Read Poems by Rosemerry
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
Gregory Orr poems: Not to Make Loss Beautiful and Grief Will Come to You
Shel Silverstein
Watching my Friend Pretend her Heart Isn't Breaking
Books Discussed:
Poetry of Presence Vol 1 & 2
James Crews poetry anthologies: The Path to Kindness; How to Love the World